{"id":570,"date":"2020-07-09T10:19:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T17:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jeffcarl.com\/?p=570"},"modified":"2020-07-09T14:25:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T21:25:16","slug":"blab-tv-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jeffcarl.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/09\/blab-tv-news\/","title":{"rendered":"BLAB TV News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jeffcarl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/BlabTV.png\" alt=\"BLAB TV News\" class=\"wp-image-571\" width=\"261\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jeffcarl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/BlabTV.png 428w, https:\/\/www.jeffcarl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/BlabTV-300x261.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><figcaption>The Richmond State + BLAB TV: a deep, rich vein of pure comedy gold.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In the summer of 1996, Paul Caputo and I decided to use our runaway lack of success at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffcarl.com\/index.php\/category\/writing\/the-richmond-state\/\">The Richmond State<\/a> to conquer the next rung up the ladder of comedy fame: local access television. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>As a courtesy to our millennial viewers I should explain that local access television was how crazy people distributed videos before YouTube, except that it could only be seen by insomniacs and chemically impaired people tuned to a specific unpopular TV channel late at night. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We rounded up our friends Branden Waugh and Julie Amos to co-star, and somehow ended up with a collection of hyper-topical comedy skits that have aged very poorly and a musical number that somehow came out even worse. I am still pretty proud of the opening credits song, however. We assigned Branden to be the salesperson who would enlist local sponsors and I don&#8217;t remember how that all turned out except that it somehow involved &#8220;Myrna&#8217;s Bits &#8216;n&#8217; Boots&#8221; and we only lasted one episode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BLAB TV News\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kmsbdnzbtHI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>If someone at YouTube reviewed this video for objectionable content it will have doubled the BLAB TV lifetime viewing audience.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cast and Crew<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Julie McCabe Amos<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paul Caputo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jeffrey Carl<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Branden Waugh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the summer of 1996, Paul Caputo and I decided to use our runaway lack of success at The Richmond State to conquer the next rung up the ladder of comedy fame: local access television. As a courtesy to our millennial viewers I should explain that local access television was how crazy people distributed videos &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeffcarl.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/09\/blab-tv-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BLAB TV News<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,11],"tags":[68,74,22],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor","category-video-theater","tag-branden-waugh","tag-julie-amos","tag-paul-caputo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jeffcarl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/blabtvlogo.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffcarl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffcarl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffcarl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffcarl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffcarl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffcarl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffcarl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffcarl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffcarl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffcarl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffcarl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}